Faucet



p 1929- L. J. HENGESBACH 1,727,169

FAUGET Filed March 29. 1928 J5 773, 46 4 v 48 mum/ 1 4mm J5 Inrenlvf:

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Patented Sept. 3, 1929.

v UNITED STATES LEO J. HENGESBAGI-I, OF CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CLEVELAND BRASS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

FAUCET.

Application filed March 29, 1928. Serial 170,265,555.

This invention relates to improvements in faucets, and pertains more especially to an improvement of the faucet disclosed; in United States Letters Patent No. 1,519,604 of December 16, 1924, and comprising a valve having bearing in a casing which has an internal valveseat and an interior chamber extending circumferentially. and forward of said seat and having a fluid-outlet adjacent and a fluid-inlet surrounded by said seat, said valve being arranged to control communication through said inlet and capable of rotation in one direction after movement from its fully open position to said seat, and the valve and casing having means whereby the valve is rendered fluid-tight in relation to said seat during said rotation of the valve.

One object of this invention is to make a faucet of the character indicated at considerably less cost than heretofore, and more especially to improve the construction of the valve of the faucet, and to have said valve comprise such meritorious features as will render it comparatively light in weight and adequately strong and durable and conveniently manipulated. 1

Anotherob ect is to insure the flow, to the hereinbefore mentioned o1 1t-let, 'o fall liquid received by the h'ereinbefore mentioned chamber, and to avoid waste of liquid.

Another object is to positively prevent distortion of or injury tothe valve by and during theactuation of the valveinto fluidtight engagement with the valve-seat.

With these objects in view, and to attain other objects hereinafter appearing, this in vention consists in certain meritorious features of construction, and combinations and .relative arrangements of parts, hereinafter describedin this specification, pointed out in the claims, and illustrated inthe acco1n-' panying drawings. I

In said drawings, Figure 1 is acentml vertical longitudinal section of the valve casing of my improved faucet, with the valve shown in its fully open position and in elevation. Fig. 2 is a central vertical longitudinal section of the casing and shows the valve in elevation and as having been slid from the position shown in Fig. 1 to-- ward and against the valve-seat before'rotation of the valve to the right as required to force the valve into fluid-tight relation to the valve-seat. Figs. 3 and 4 aretransverse sections taken along dashed lines 3-3 and 4&4 respectively in Fig. 1, looking inwardly. Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken along dashed line 5+5 in Fig. 2, looking inwardly: Fig. 6 is a central longitudinal section of the casing and shows the valve in elevation and as having been forced into fluid-tight relation to. the valve-seat. Fig. 7 is a transverse section taken along dashed line 77 in Fig. 6, looking inwardly. Fig. 8 is a transverse section taken along dashed line 88 in Fig. 6,-looking outwardly. Fig. 9 is a section taken along dashed line 9-9 in Fig. 1, looking upwardly. Fig. 10 is a transverse section taken centrally between the sides of the valve-face-constituting disk of the valve and through and transversely of the member which is surrounded by and employed in supporting said disk. Fig. 11 is a section taken along dashed line w-w in Fig. 6, looking outwardly. Fig. 12 is a section taken along said dashed line w-:r in Fig. 6, looking inwardly. Fig. 13 is asection taken along either line 13-13 in Fig. 1, looking outwardly. Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are drawing full size, whereas Figs. 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 are drawn on a larger scale.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 6 of said drawings, 15 indicates a screw-threaded and substantially horizontal tubular member adapted to be applied to a metal container (not shown) at a point where liquid may be drained from and at the bottom of a body of liquid in said container, and an inclined valve-casing 16 extends upwardly and forwardly'from the member 15. The casing 16 has an interior chamber 17 which has a fluid-outlet formed by a downwardly projecting spout 18 arranged at the bottom of the lower end portion of said casing. Members 15, 16 and 18 consist of a single metal casting composed preferably of aluminum only, orof an alloy which is composed, in the main, of zinc, aluminum and copper. The chamber 17 has a fluid-inlet 19 which is in communication with the tubular member 15 and formed at the rear of the upper or inner end of the spout 18, and the casing 16 has a narrow internal annular valve-seat 2O surrounding the discharging end of said inlet and facing in the direction of the upper or outer end of the casing. The chamber 17 extends,as at 21, around the valve-seat 20 and forwardly of said seat to'the outer end of the casing 16 and is circular in cross-section between the spout 18 and said end of said casing. The valve-seat 20 is rounded as shown more clearly in Fig. 9.

My improved faucet comprises a valve from its fully open position shown in Fig.

1 toward and into contact with the valveseat 20, as shown in Fig. 2. The valve is therefore movable axially, and its head 23 has bearing in the casing 16 in any position of the valve.

The head 23 (see Figs. 1 and 9) is provided with the face of the valve, and said face is preferably formed by a thin and resilient annular disk 25. Said disk is applied to the head 23 as will hereinafter appear and arranged opposite the valve-seat 20. The disk 25 has the arrangement and dimensions required to extend opposite and engage the valve-seat 20 all round the inlet 19 of the chamber 17 when the valve is closed. The disk 25 measures less in internal diameter than the valve-seat 20 and measures in external diameter more than said seat and somewhat less than the head 23. The disk 25 is preferably composed of fibrous material such, for instance, as vulcanized fiber, which is not detrimentally affected by contact with gasoline. Lubricatlng oil or other liquid that may pass from the inlet 10 of the chamber 17 to the spout or outlet 18. The arrangement of the parts is such that the head 23,- when the valve is in its fully open position, has bearing in the casing 16 at the forward side of the inner end of the spout 18, as shown in F ig. 1, and that the disk 25 is in fluid-tight engagement with the valve-seat 20 when the valve is closed, as shown in Fig. 6. The disk 25 (see Figs. 9 and 10) is preferably supported from an axially projecting mem ber 26 which is formed on and centrally of and preferably integral with the head 23, and said projecting member 26 is considerably smaller diametrically than the inlet 19 of the chamber '17 and arranged to extend into said inlet when the valve is closed.

The projecting member 26 of head 23 (see Figs. 9 and 10) has an annular circumferential flange 27 which is spaced somewhat from the head 23 and, as shown in Fig. 9, has beveled sides 28 substantially meeting at the circumference of said flange. The flange 27 therefore is gradually reduced inthickness toward "its circumference.- The disk '25 (see Fig. '9) extends between flange 27 and the disk-facing sideof head 23, and

of-flange 27 of member 26 and more than said member 26 measures in diameter between said flange and the disk-facing side of head 23. The disk 25 has the resilience required to render the disk capable of being removed from head 23 by springing or forcing the disk over and from the beveled flange 27 of the projecting member 26. of head 23, and the disk thus removed can be readily replaced by a new disk sprung over said flange and into position between said flange and the disk-facing side of said head.

The casing 16 (see Figs. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 is provided, at its top, with a pin 30 applied to and supported from the casing in any approved manner, and said pin is arranged intermediate the ends and radially of the casing and shown spaced farther from the valve-seat20 than from the outer end of the casing. The pin 30 (see Fig. 2) is preferably beveled, as at 31. at its inner extremity, and the inner end portion of said pin is arranged internally of the easing 16 and between the outer end portion of said casing and the head 23 of the valve and in position to cooperate with said' head in forming a stop for arresting movement of the valve when the valve is being manually actuated from the position shown in Fig. 2 into its fully open position shown in Fig. 1.

The valve (see Figs. 1, 2 and 5) also comprises a manually operatable stem 32 exte-ndingaxially of the valve and surrounded by chamber 17 and spaced from the head 23 of the valve in the direction of the outer end of casing 16, and said stem is provided at its inner end with a flange 33 extending, circumferentiallyof said. end of the stem. Theflanged. end 0f stem 32 and the head 23'are arranged to constitute opposite end walls respectively of the space extending axially between said head and stem. The head 23 and flange 33 are rigidly connected together, as will hereinafter appear, at points spaced circumferentially of said axially extending space. h

The arrangement and dimensions of flange 33 of stem 32 are preferably such that at the end. of the rectilinear or sliding endwise movement of the valve from its fully open position, shown in Fig. 1,. toward'and intocontact with the valve-seat 20, as shown in Fig 2, one end face 34 of said. flange (see Figs. 2 and 5) faces leftward and is arranged internally of the upper portion of the casing 16- and opposite and next the right-hand side of thepin 30, and said flange extends from said end face rightward circumferentially of tion shown in Figs. 6 and 7 into the position the stem 32 preferably somewhat more than three-fourths of the distance around the axis of the stem! Also, in the position of the valve shown in Figs. 2 and 5 the other end face 35 of the flange 33 is arranged above the axis of the stem 32 and spaced leftward from pin 30 and therefore leftward from the first-mentioned end face 34 of thc flange, and the stem is spaced, between said end faces of said flange, from the inner end face of said pin.

The relative arrangement of the parts is such that the flange 33 has bearing adjacent the outer end of and in the casing 16 when the valve is fully open as shown in Fig. 1, and said flange has bearing adjacent the upper end of the forward side of spout 18' and in said casing when. the valve has been moved from its fully open position toward and into contact with valve-seat 20, as shown in Fig. 2. The flange 33 is substantially uniform in thickness from end to end thereof and (see Fig. 2) is spaced farthest, at its endface 35, from the outer end of the casing 16. When the valve is in the positionshown 1n Fig. 2 the flange has its portion 36 which extends fromthe end face 35 of 7 y the flange substantlally to the bottom of the casing 16, extending somewhat endwise of the casing and arranged in such relation to the casing and pm 30 .that said portion of the flange has a surface37 which extends to said end face 35 and faces not only in the direction of the outer end of the casing but also upwardly. The surface 37 has such arrangement in relation to the pin 30, when of casing 16 and surface 37 of flange 33' therefore constitute means whereby the valve is forced into fluid-tight engagement with the valve-seat 20 during said rotation of the valve. Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate the position of the valve in relation to pin 30 after said rotation of the valve.

Obviously, when the valve is tightly closed, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, after the I aforesaid rotation of the valve, a forcible turn of the valve to the left from the posishown in Figs. 2 and 5 will be required preliminary to movement of the valve into its open position shown in Fig. 1.

The hereinbefore referred to rigid connection between flange 33 and head 23 (see Figs. 1 and 4) comprises three rigid longitudinal metal members 38, 40 and 43 extending from said head to said flange and spaced from and circumferentially of the axis of the valve, and said members 38, 40- and 43 are substantially parallel with the hereinbefore men tioned sliding endwise movement of the valve and somewhat spaced from the circumference of head '23, as shown in Fig. 4, and spaced from the circumference of the flange 33, as shown in dashed lines in Figs. 5 and 7, and preferably spaced from end to end thereof'from casing 16. The stem 32 and its flange 33, the head 23 and members 38, 40 and 43 preferably consist of a single casting composed preferably of aluminum only, or of an alloy which is composed, in the main, of zinc, aluminum and copper.

.The leftward facing side of longitudinal member 38 (see Figs. 1 and 2) extends from the end face 34 of flange 33 to head 23 and is substantially flush with said end face so that said end face of said flange and said side of said longitudinalmember 38 constitute a shoulder which, when the valve is inits fullyopen position shown in Figs. 1 and 4, or in the position shown in Figs. 2 and 5, and throughout the movement of the valve from one to the other of said positions, is opposite the right-hand side of pin 30 and therefore arranged to cooperate with'said pin in guiding the valve in preventing objectionable leftward circumferential displacement; of the valve. 7

Longitudinal member 40 (see Figs. '1 and v 4) has a flat surface 41 extending from flange 33 to head 23 and, arranged to con-- stitute the top of said member 40 when the valve is fully open, and said surface 41 issubstantially flush with the adjacent end face 35 of said flange. The relative arrangement of the parts is such that surface 41 and pin 30 are arranged to cooperate in limiting rotation of the valve to the right when the valve is inits fully open position. Longitudinal member 4O (see Fig. 4) is spaced at the inner longitudinal edge of its surface 41 not only leftward from longitudinal member 38 but somewhat from said member 38 in the direction of the axis of the valve. At its outer longitudinal edge member 40 (see Fig.4) is enlarged in thickness,as at 42, in a direction opposite to the direction in which the surface 41 of said member faces so that the valve is rendered adequately strong at said edge.

Longitudinal member 43 is preferably T- shaped in cross-section, as shown in Fig. 4, p

and spaced circumferentially of the axis ofthe valve leftwardfrom longitudinal mom-- ber 40 and preferably spaced about one-half the distance around said axis from longitudinal member 38 andarrangedwholly below the axis of stem 30 in the fully open position of the valve. -Member 43 materially reinforces head 23 and flange 33 and is of vast importance in rendering the valvestructure strong enough to withstand any strain to which it may be subjected by the hereinbefore mentioned forcing of the valve into fluid-tight relation to the valve-seat.

Ste1n32 (see Figs. 1, 2, 6 and 8) terminatesat its outer end in an integral circular head 45 which, when the valve is in contactwith. the valve-seat, has hearing at the outer end of and in casing 16 and constitutes a closure for the outer end of chamber 17. Head 45 (see Figs. 1, 2, 6 and 12) is provided at its outer face with a handleconstituting wing 46 which is integral with said head and arranged at the axis and transversely of said face and spaced some- What at each end thereof from the circumference of said face. Head 45 (see Fig. 12

is provided, at each side of wing 46 centrally ginal reinforcing flange 50 extending circumferentially of and between the cavitied outer end portions of thediverging 1nenihers 48 and from end to end of the \ing,

and said flange (see Fig. 12).,also extends at each end thereof to the outer face of the head 45 and is enlarged in Width, as at 51, at said face; The head 45 is therefore materially reinforced by the enlar ements 51 of flanges 50.

What I claim is I 1. A faucet comprising a casing having an internal valve-seat and an interiorchainber extending circumferentially and forward of said seat, and a valve arranged oppositesaid seat and movable endwise of said chamber and capable of rotation in one direction after movement to said seat from an open position and comprising an axial stemand a circular head which is provided with the valve-face and has bearing in the casing, said stem being spaced from said head toward the outer end of the casingand having a circumferential flange, said flange and easing having means whereby the valve isrendered fluid-tight in relation to the valve-seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, and

the valve also comprising several spaced apart rigld members which connect said flange andaforesaid head together and arespaced from and circumferentially of the axis of the valve and from the casing.

2. A faucet comprising a casing having an internal valve-seat and an interior chamber extending circumferentially and forward of said seat, and a valve arranged opposite said flange together and spaced circumferentially of and from the'axis of the valve, and the head and flanged stem and spaced connecting members being composed of a single casting.

3. A faucet comprising a casing having an internal valve-seat, and a'valve arranged opposite said seat and capable of rotation in one direction after endwise movement to said seat from an open position and comprising an axial stem and a head provided with the valve-face, the stem being spaced outwardly from said head and having a flange which in the fully open position of the valve has one end thereof'arranged above the axis of the stem and extends from said end rightward circinnferentially of the stem and has its other end arranged above said axis and leftward from the first-mentioned end, the valve having rigid members connect-ing the ends of said flange to said. head, the flange and casing having means whereby the valve is rendered fluid-tight in relation to the valve-seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, and the valve also havlng a memher which is arranged wholly below the foresaid axis inthe aforesaid open position of the valve and connects said flange and aforesaid head together.

4. A faucet comprising a casing having aninternal valve-seat and extending forward of said seat, a pin extending-internally of the upper portion of and supported from the casing, and a valve arranged opposite the valve-scat and movable endwise of the casing and capable of rotation to the right after movement to said seat from an open position and comprising a stem and a head having the valve face, the stem being spaced axially outwardly from said head and having a flange extendlng over two-thirds of the distance around the stem, one end portion of said flange being arranged to extend opposite the right-hand side of the pin after the aforesaidmovement of the valve to the valve-seat, the other end portion of said flange having a surface facing toward the outer end and extending endwise of the easing, said surface and the pin being ar ranged to cooperate in forclng the valve into fluid-tight relation to the valve-seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, and the aforesaid flange being rigidly connected, at its first-mentioned end portion and also adjacent each end of said surface, to the aforesaid head.

5. A faucet comprising a casing which has an internal valve-seat and extends forward of said seat, and an axially movable valve arranged opposite said seat and capable of rotation in one direction after movement to said seat from an open position and comprising a stem and a head having the face of the valve, the stem being spaced axially outwardly from said head and arranged endwise of the casing and having a circumfer-v ential flange rigidly connected to sa1d head,

said flange and easing having. means whereby the valve is forced'into fluid-tight relation to the valve-seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, the stem terminating at its outer end in an integral head arranged to constitute a closure for the outer end of the casing in the closed position of the valve, and the last-mentioned head being provided at its outer face with a wing arranged transversely of said face and having two reinforcing lugs arranged at opposite sides respectively and centrally between the ends of said wing.

6. A faucet comprising a casing which has an. internal valve-seat and extends forward of said seat, and a valve arranged 0pposite said seat and movable endwise of the casing and capable of rotation in one direction after movement to said seat from an open position and comprising a stem and a head having the face of the valve, the stem being spaced axially outwardly from said head andarranged endwise of the easing and having a flange rigidly connected to said head, said flange and easing having means whereby the valve is forced into fluid-tight relation to the valve-seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, the stem terminating at its outer end in a head provided at its outer face with a wing arranged substantially at the axis of the stem and transversely of said face, said wing being spaced from the circumference of said face, and the last-mentioned head being reinforced, at each end of said wing, by two flanges arranged at opposite sides respectively of the wing 7. A fcllCGl] comprising a casing which has an internal valve-seat and extends forward of said seat, and a valve arranged opposite said seat and movable endwise of the casing and capable of rotation in one direc tion after movement to said seat from an open position and comprising an axial stem and a head provided with the face of the valve, the stem being spaced outwardly from said head and arranged endwise of the casing and having a flange rigidly connected to said head, said flange and easing havan internal valve-seat and extends forward v of said seat, and a valve arranged opposite said seat and movable endwise of the casing and capable of rotation in one direction after movement to said seat from an open position and comprising an axial stem and a head having the face of the valve, the stem being spaced outwardly from said head and arranged endwise of the casing and having a flange rigidly connected to said head, said flange and easing having means whereby the valve is forced into fluidtight relation to the valve-seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, the stem terminating at its outer end in a head provided at its outer face with a wing arranged transversely of said face, and said wing having two outwardly diverging members and provided at each side thereof with a laterally projecting marginal reinforcing flange extending circumferentially of and between said diverging members.

9. A faucet comprising a casing which has an internal valve-seat and extends forward of said seat, and a valve arranged opposite said seat and movable endwise of the casing and capable of rotation in one direction after movement to said seat from an open position and comprising an axial stem and a head provided with the valve-face, the stem being spaced outwardly from said head and arranged endwise of the casing and having a flange rigidlyconnected to said head, said flange and easing having means whereby the valve is forced into fluid-tight relation to the valve-seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, the stem terminating at its outer end in a head provided at its outer face with a wing arranged transversely of said face, and said wing having two outwardly diverging members and also a laterally projecting marginal reinforcing flange extending circumferentially of and between said diverging members and from said diverging members to said face of the last-mentioned head.

10. A faucet con'iprising a casing which has an internal valve-seat and extends forward of said seat, and a valve arranged oopposite said seat and movable endwise of the casing and capable of rotation in one direction after movement to said seat from an open position and comprising an axial by the valve is forced into fluid tight relation to the valve-seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, the stemternnnatmg at its. outer end in a head provided at its outer face with a wing which has two out- Ward'ly diverging members and is" provided at each side thereof with a laterally pro jecti'ng marginal flange, which extends ciroumferentially of said diverging members and from said diverging members to and is widened at said face of the last-mentioned 11. A faucet comprising a casing which has an internal valve-seat and extends for- Ward of said seat, and a valve arranged opposite said seat and movable endwise of baht??? thecasing and capable of rotation in one;

direction after movement to said seat from an open position and comprising an axial stem and a head having the valve-face, the stem being spaced outwardly from said head toward the outer end of the casing and having a flange rigidly connected to said head, said flange and casing having means wherehy'the valve is forced into fluid-tight relation to the valve-seat during the aforesaid rotation of the valve, the stem terminating at its outer end in a head provided at its outer face with a wing having two out- Wardly diverging; members having l'ateraily projecting marginal ianges, the outer end portion 01 each of said diverging members having two shallow'circular cavities formed at opposite sides respectively of said wing.

In testimony whereofl l sign the foregoing specification.

LEO J. HENGESBAOH. 

